Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558, Japan;Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113, Japan
Abstract:
Ab initio Calculations of the isomerization reaction of diphosphene 1-sulfide (2′) to thiadiphosphirane (3′) suggest that the energy barrier of the reaction in the ground state is 25 kcal/mol and that 2′ lies 21 kcal/mol above 3′, while the calculations show that there exists one local minimum on the lowest triplet energy surface.